NamMedevac 70 wrote:
How long will the gen power your house before refil needed and a trip to an electric powered gas pump??? Just curious.
My Onan 4000 was rated at about half a gallon per hour at 1/2 load, and the RV had a 45 gallon tank (only usable to 1/4 tank, so around 30 gallons usable, so I'd get around 60 hours if I ran it 24/7, or about 2.5 days.
Though in a power failure, I'd really only need to run it around 6 hours a day or less (enough to run the `fridge and furnace once every 4 hours), so I'd get around 10 days of use before I had to refuel.
The Onan 7000 is rated at 0.7 gph at half load, or 0.4 gph at no load. I don't know what RV he has, but the Tiffin Allegro Open Road comes with the Onan 7000 and has an 80 gallon fuel tank, so he'd get somewhere between 80 - 150 hours of runtime.
I've only had one extended power failure so far and it only lasted about a day and it was in warm weather, so I only had to power the 'fridge.
